Collishaw, Rego and Wylie Shortlisted For 2018 Southbank Award

The South Bank Sky Arts Award (originally The South Bank Show Award) has announced the three shortlisted visual artists for the 2018 award. Mat Collishaw has been nominated for Thresholds, Somerset House, Paula Rego – The Boy Who Loved the Sea and Other Stories, Jerwood Gallery and Rose Wylie – Quack Quack, Serpentine Sackler Gallery.

Paula Rego – The Boy Who Loved the Sea and Other Stories Photo: Courtesy Marlborough Gallery

The accolade recognises British achievements in the arts. The awards have been given annually since 1996. They originated with the long-running British arts programme The South Bank Show. The last South Bank Show Awards ceremony to be broadcast by ITV was in January 2010. After the network had announced that The South Bank Show would be cancelled at the end of the 2009 season, the award ceremony continued to be broadcast by Sky Arts and was eventually renamed the South Bank Sky Arts Award. Sky Arts revived The South Bank Show itself in 2012.

Now in its 22nd year, the annual awards ceremony will take place at The Savoy Hotel in London on Sunday 1 July 2018, hosted by Melvyn Bragg and celebrating the wide range of creative talent Britain has to offer, from Stormzy to Paddington 2. It will also be broadcast on Sky.